New Line grabs Pan

We all love to talk about how Hollywood never
has any new ideas, and the folks there rarely do anything to change our minds, churning out crappy sequel after crappy
sequel, and endlessly remaking and tweaking old ideas. Among those poor, abused old ideas is that of a little,
green-clad boy named Peter Pan. From a silent
adaptation in 1924 to the retina-scarring image of a fully-Naired Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter in Hook; from the 1950s cartoon
version to Johnny Depp's J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland, Hollywood just cannot get enough of that flying
kid. And now, just in case you were worried a whole three years might pass without another Peter Pan flick, New Line has
bought a pitch that approaches the story from a rather promising horror angle.

Blandly-but-cleverly entitled
Pan, first-time writer Ben Magid's pitch has a supernatural twist, and depicts Peter as "a villain
tracked by police captain named Hook"; New Line paid for the pitch and then set the film up to be developed
through the recently-founded Energy
Entertainment management group. Because I'm a whore for dark detective stories, I think this approach has a ton of
potential. The more rational among you, however, will probably say that it's going to be a crappy, gimmicky mess with a
throwaway story that probably won't be able to sustain 90 minutes of film. Sigh. Dammit, why can't you just let me dream
for a few minutes?